Ann Cleeves Quotes

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

The problem of “honor killings” is not a problem of morality or of ensuring that women maintain their own personal virtue; rather, it is a problem of domination, power and hatred of women who, in these instances, are viewed as nothing more than servants to the family, both physically and symbolically.

In most crimes of honour, there is no concrete evidence. The women are killed just because of rumours or suspicions that they may have crossed the line of 'decent' behaviour. In cases where women are deemed to have 'dishonoured' the family through their conduct, the husband is considered to have the first right to avenge, followed by the father, and then the brother.

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Since 9-11, more women have been killed by their husbands or boyfriends that Americans have been killed in 9-11, Iraq, and Afghanistan put together.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

Trying to fight misogyny using juridical moral notions is a bit like trying to fight fire with oxygen. It might work on a small scale — we do manage to blow out matches and candles, after all. But when we try to scale up the strategy, it is liable to backfire. We would be trying to put out a fire while feeding right into it.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.